Max Beckmann

Met Gets Convincingly Contemporary With Neo Rauch’s Dreamscapes

Neo Rauch, an international art star who merits the hype, is painting six canvases exclusively for the Met.
Wolfgang Stahr
Neo Rauch, an international art star who merits the hype, is painting six canvases exclusively for the Met.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been attempting to fit contemporary art within its walls for some  read more »

All That Glitters Isn’t Gold: Weimar Visages Laid Bare

Otto Dix
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Otto Dix

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s is an exhib  read more »

Bearden’s Collages Encompass Bruegel’s Babel, Harlem Blues

Romare Bearden
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY
Romare Bearden

In his essay What the Sixties Meant to Me, the painter Rackstraw Downes writes of an encounter with  read more »

Dix and Beckmann: Two Painters Convey The Horror of War

Not a pretty picture: <i>Otto Dix&#039;s Skull</i>, 1924.
Courtesy of Neue Galerie New York
Not a pretty picture: Otto Dix's Skull, 1924.

Given the horrific history of Germany in the modern era, it was not to be expected that German art f  read more »

Beckmann, Picasso: Painters Reunited For the First Time

In a rare collaboration between two elite art dealerships, Richard L. Feigen and Co.  read more »

Oh, That Weltschmerz! German Expressionism About Dark, Not Light

Artists, critics, art collectors and curators for whom the delights of French painting remain a stan  read more »

Dense, Humane and Moral, Bearden Sets a Fine Example

The Romare Bearden retrospective now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., will, after  read more »

Currently Hanging

Dense, Humane and Moral,Bearden Sets a Fine Example  read more »

Max Beckmann Still Shocks Viewers With His Greatness

It has always been a conundrum for established opinion in the New York art world: how to come to ter  read more »

Weimar Era's Schad, Cynical, Sardonic, No Max Beckmann

The art, literature and music of Weimar Germany in the 1920's have long been a subject of both criti  read more »